The effects of the Bolivian revolution of 1952 helped destroy the old oligarchy (known in Bolivia as the ' rosca '). The nationalisation of the tin mines ended the primacy of the 'tin barons' (the Patiño, Aramayo and Hochschild families), while the agrarian reform broke up landed estates in the Altiplano and valleys.

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1995年12月31日 · The benefits of FDI: is foreign investment in Bolivia’s oil and gas delivering? Claire McGuigan

The indigenous people in that region had historically been denied land and rights as equal citizens. Peasant unions and the CSCIB ( Interculturales - union of western indigenous people who had migrated and settled in the east of the country) were present from the ‘70s, and these were joined by the CIDOB (Indigenous Federation of the East ...

the terms for the Bolivian state. Jindal will work 50% of the deposit; investment will increase from US$600 million to US$2.1 billion; steel as well as iron will be produced in the area; and the smelting plant will be fired by natural gas, rather than through deforestation-producing carbon. Moreover, the firm will provide work to 6,000 people

2011年6月20日 · people living in the area. From the 1970s onwards, Aymara and Quechua campesino colonisers from the Altiplano and high valleys began to settle in the area to the south of the park, closest to Cochabamba and adjacent to the coca-producing Chapare area. They began to produce cacao, bananas, cassava, maize, citrus fruits and coca.

maize and vegetables. In the Beni the floods made many people temporarily homeless, and cattle were also affected. However it is the country’s highland areas which have been worst affected, by torrential rains, hailstorms and frost with loss of potato and other harvests.

by people employed by the regional govern-ment (prefecture) of Pando. The prefect, Leo-poldo Fernández, is currently under arrest on charges of genocide. • The mass mobilisation of peasant and indige-nous groups on roads leading into Santa Cruz. These repelled the well-equipped thugs from the Unión Juvenil Cruceñista (UJC) in

act of vandalism. People were filmed carrying off booty from the offices that had been occupied. Access to the Santa Cruz airport was blocked, and in the Beni several airports were occupied. Much has been made in the international press of the …

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